This is the third edition of our Top.gg Bot Developer Panel, which was part of our 6th Anniversary Celebrations!

Part of this panel were:

• Hoss, Owner of Bake.gg (25k servers)
  https://top.gg/bot/824029844496056364
• Kodyline, Owner of Chatsight (1.4k servers)
  https://top.gg/bot/957403656091746384
• NathanL, Owner of Double Counter (260k servers)
  https://top.gg/bot/703886990948565003 
• Crawl, Maintainer of the discord.js Libraray (17 million downloads/year)
  https://discord.js.org 
• LeMorrow, Owner of Needle (4k servers)
  https://top.gg/bot/878399831238909952

Due to technical difficulties, this recording is missing the first three minutes of the panel.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Introductions
00:08:39 - How today's event works

Questions:

00:08:54 - Tell us about your bot and why you created it?
00:15:12 - If you can't chose your own bot, what's your favorite bot?
00:20:29 - In your opinion, what is the biggest misconception about being a bot developer?
00:25:07 - As a bot developer you have to do many jobs throught development, how has your personal experience been in doing so?
00:31:11 - Have you considered branching out to other platforms than just Discord?
00:37:34 - As your bot has grown, how has it been scaling your project?
00:43:50 - What do you think is the secret ingredient to your project's growth?
00:51:04 - What has been a challenging time working with your community?

Panelist-specific questions:

00:57:33 - [Crawl] How do you keep your library up-to-date without too many breaking changes on a short turnaround?
01:00:00 - [Hoss] What advice would you give to bot developers trying to improve their economy system?
01:01:48 - [Kodyline] What role do you think AI will play in Discord server moderation in the future?
01:04:55 - [Nathan] How do you see the future of keeping servers safe?
01:06:43 - [LeMorrow] What made you want to use threads in this way? Anything else you'd like to see from the Discord API in the future?

Open AMA:

01:10:28 - [Syjalo for Crawl] Will there be a official discord.js framework?
01:11:21 - [Family friendly] How do you consistently find motivation to support your bots for years over time?
01:13:37 - [Timeless for Crawl] Should you rely on discord.py for really big projects?
01:14:42 - [Fellintron for Nathan] What algorithm is being used by Double Counter in order to detect alts?
01:15:45 - [Past for Crawl] Do you think you have personally influenced young users to pick up developing bots as an hobby?
01:16:45 - [Johand] How well do you think Discord is communicating their changes and have they recently gotten worse or better?
01:19:27 - [Emir] Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
01:21:20 - [Official] Which advice would you give to users that want to start bot developing but don't know where to do so?
01:24:20 - [big bun] What is your opinion on the newest features on Discord?

01:29:10 - One last piece of advice for bot developers?

01:30:25 - Closing off / Shoutouts